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همچنان لرزانی این عالمان ** که بودشان عقل و علم این جهان
- Even such (is) the trembling of these learned scholars who have the intelligence and knowledge of this world.
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از پی این عاقلان ذو فنون ** گفت ایزد در نبی لا یعلمون
- On account of these accomplished (and) intelligent men, God said in the Qur’án, They do not know.
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هر یکی ترسان ز دزدی کسی ** خویشتن را علم پندارد بسی
- Each (of them) is afraid of some one's stealing (his time): he fancies that he possesses a great deal of knowledge.
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گوید او که روزگارم می‌برند ** خود ندارد روزگار سودمند 2645
- He says, “They are wasting my time,” (but) in truth he has no time that is profitable.
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گوید از کارم بر آوردند خلق ** غرق بی‌کاریست جانش تابه حلق
- He says, “The people have taken me away from my work,” (but) his soul is plunged in idleness up to the throat.
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عور ترسان که منم دامن کشان ** چون رهانم دامن از چنگالشان
- (Like) the naked man (he) is frightened and says, “I am trailing a (long) skirt: how shall I save my skirt from their clutches?”
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صد هزاران فضل داند از علوم ** جان خود را می‌نداند آن ظلوم
- He knows a hundred thousand superfluous matters connected with the (various) sciences, (but) that unjust man does not know his own soul.
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داند او خاصیت هر جوهری ** در بیان جوهر خود چون خری
- He knows the special properties of every substance, (but) in elucidating his own substance (essence) he is (as ignorant) as an ass,
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که همی‌دانم یجوز و لایجوز ** خود ندانی تو یجوزی یا عجوز 2650
- Saying, “I know (what is) permissible and unpermissible.” Thou knowest not whether thou thyself art permissible or (unpermissible as) an old woman.
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این روا و آن ناروا دانی ولیک ** تو روا یا ناروایی بین تو نیک
- Thou knowest this licit (thing) and that illicit (thing), but art thou licit or illicit? Consider well!